Today's Celtics are a better team than they were last year.
Deeper and more experienced.
This regular season is not a great indicator of real power.
Standings are misleading due to a pretty weird season.
I'm too lazy to look it up, but I bet the C's are near the top in missed games due to injury.
#1 due to Covid but like #7 or #8 due to Covid and injuries.....at least, the last I checked about a week ago.
Looks like Dallas may be ahead of Boston in covid related at this point and it appears Boston may be more in the middle in total games missed, though obviously there are ways to do the metric that change things. Like how do you account for someone like Klay Thompson or Jonathan Isaac that isn't going to play at all this year, do you count him as games missed or not count him at all and act like he isn't on the roster.
Spotrac has Boston 10th in total games lost. About 10 days ago they were 8th. Regarding Covid games lost, do you want to provide that link because last I checked Boston had a huge lead in player games lost due to Covid.
Here's the link for Covid days: https://fansure.com/user/fansureFeed/detail/608
Celtics are still the leader by a wide margin (167 days to 118 for the Mavs whi sit at #2). This data is for days in protocol, and not games missed, so perhaps there are other numbers that are slightly different, but it's unlikely to be so different as to push the Celtics from number 1, as the C's are nearly 50% more affected.
the graphic I saw was for actual games missed, but it was on tv, so I don't have a link. They were close. That said missing days, means missing practice, film study, etc. So there is obviously a big negative to missing that many days. And there is a lot of wiggle room in the days vs. games discussion. Pursuant to that list Satoransky missed 28 days in the protocol, but when you look at the schedule he missed only 10 games. Fournier is something like 27 days, 9 games (Thompson was 26 days, 13 games). But Willie Cauley-Stein missed 25 days, but 14 games during that stretch, Kleber missed 21 days, but 11 games. So days missed doesn't evenly equate to games missed since the two Mavs listed missed more games, but had less days off than Fournier or Satoransky. Then you have guys like Langford that were in the covid protocol but also injured for some of that time, so does that count as a missed game for covid or not since he would have missed some games anyway (at one point during the covid protocols he was cleared to play and those games clearly count in the covid missed games list).
Either way, whether Boston is 1st or 2nd in games missed, I don't think really changes much of anything as it has clearly negatively affected the team. Especially for the players like Tatum that actually had covid and had lingering effects even when they left the protocols.
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